Risk, ambiguity and willingness to participate in crop insurance programs: Evidence from a field experiment*
Risk, ambiguity and willingness to participate in crop insurance programs: Evidence from a field experiment*
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参与农作物保险计划的风险、模糊性和意愿:田间实验的证据*
DOI:
10.1111/1467-8489.12434
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Abdulai
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作者:
Abdulai
This paper analyses smallholder farmers’ willingness to participate in crop insurance programs, using recent data from cocoa farmers in Ghana. Given the significance of output uncertainty and imperfect capital and insurance markets, we develop a theoretical framework to analyse how risk and ambiguity aversion, and liquidity constraints influence farmers’ crop insurance participation decisions. We employ field experiments to elicit farmers’ ambiguity and risk aversion, the stated preference approach to obtain information on farmers’ willingness to participate in crop insurance programs, and a discrete choice model to examine the factors that influence their participation decisions. We find that risk preferences, ambiguity aversion, and liquidity constraints influence farmers’ willingness to participate in crop insurance programs. The results also reveal that the probability of participating in crop insurance programs is positively influenced by wealth, trust and education of the farmers.
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DOI:
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发表时间:
2018
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影响因子:
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作者:
Z. Ding
通讯作者:
Z. Ding
影响因子:
8.2
作者:
James Berry;G. Fischer;Raymond Guiteras
通讯作者:
Raymond Guiteras
影响因子:
5
作者:
Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson
通讯作者:
Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson
影响因子:
3.6
作者:
G. Bryan
通讯作者:
G. Bryan
影响因子:
2.2
作者:
Belissa T
通讯作者:
Belissa T